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The passage mentions which of the following as evidence suggesting censorship on the part of Henry IV?
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French filmmakers of the 1920s emphasized visual style rather than narrative continuity, which was already dominant in the United States and elsewhere. Some critics have asserted that since these films flout the cinematic conventions of Hollywood, they should be regarded as important modernist cinema. While a welcome departure from the traditional denigration of 1920s French cinema, this claim overestimates or distorts the achievement of such directors as Gance and L'Herbier, since the Hollywood conventions they did not use were not yet fully established in France, where the Hollywood-style production practices that would have supported these conventions were lacking. Moreover, though 1920s French films should indeed be judged by criteria other than those underlying the Hollywood aesthetic, their slighting of Hollywood conventions does not, by itself, make them modernist or genuine revolutionary, since the weight of nineteenth-century traditions of art and literature on these films-especially in subject matter and ideological assumptions-cannot easily be disregarded.
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The author of the passage asserts which of the following about “this claim”?
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The passage suggests that the author would most likely agree with the critics mentioned in the highlighted sentence about which of the following?
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The author of the passage states which of the following about the French cinema of the 1920s?
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To reduce traffic congestion on Lochley city streets, a new road will be built to bypass the city. The road will offer a faster commute to nearly all people who live in suburbs and now commute via Lochley's streets to their jobs in other suburbs. Those cars constitute one-quarter of the cars now using Lochley's streets each weekday. Thus after the bypass road has been built, weekday traffic congestion on Lochley's streets will be substantially reduced.
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Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?
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Before feminist literary criticism emerged in the 1970s, the nineteenth-century United States writer Fanny Fern was regarded by most critics (when considered at all) as a prototype of weepy sentimentalism--a pious, insipid icon of conventional American culture. Feminist reclamations of Fern, by contrast, emphasize her "non-sentimental" qualities, particularly her sharply humorous social criticism. Most feminist scholars find it difficult to reconcile Fern's sardonic social critiques with her effusive celebrations of many conventional values. Attempting to resolve this contradiction, Harris concludes that Fern employed "flowery rhetoric" strategically to disguise her subversive goals beneath apparent conventionality. However, Tompkins proposes an alternative view of sentimentality itself, suggesting that sentimental writing could serve radical, rather than only conservative, ends by swaying readers emotionally, moving them to embrace social change.
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The passage suggests which of the following about the "contradiction" mentioned in the highlighted sentence?
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It can be inferred from the passage that Tompkins would be most likely to agree which of the following about the "critics" mentioned in the passage?
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In 1995, after an absence of nearly 10 years, wolves were reintroduced into Yellowstone National Park. During the wolf-free era, heavy browsing of aspen trees by elk populations spelled doom not only for the trees themselves but for a host of other creatures dependent on them, such as beavers, whose population in Yellowstone crashed after wolves were removed. Without beavers to create ponds, wetland ecosystems-aquatic plants, amphibians, birds-were devastated. When wolves retuned, grazers and browsers resumed normal patterns of behavior, preferring safer, open areas over the dense cover and streamsides where carnivores can lurk. Keeping elk wary and on the move, wolves gave aspen and other young trees the opportunity to grow and become reestablished.
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The passage asserts which of the following about beaver populations in Yellowstone?
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The author would be most likely to agree with which of the following claims about the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone?
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The author implies that Cole believed which of the following about the desire for" financial 'utilitarian`gain"?
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It must be acknowledged that data on ceramic artifacts do not provide the complete picture of regional economic interactions in the ancient Basin of Mexico. First, patterns of exchange between settlements cannot be understood purely through chemical compositional analysis, even when pottery provenance can be securely determined: compositional data do not indicate exactly how pots moved from one place to another or how many times a vessel was exchanged. In addition, ceramics are not the only kind of material that was exchanged between settlements. The transport of bulky and breakable ceramic pots was costly, and clay resources were widely available. Therefore, the orbits within which most ceramics circulated are likely to have been smaller than those of artifacts made from more durable materials, such as obsidian.
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According to the passage, the data on ceramic artifacts
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The passage implies that the method mentioned in the highlighted portion of the passage can help determine
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